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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Reality is woven from strange, “holistic” threads that aren’t located precisely in space or time. Tug on a dangling loose end from this fabric of reality, and the whole cloth twitches, instantly, throughout all space and time…The bottom line is that physical reality is connected in ways we’re just beginning to understand…When you drill down into the core of even the most solid-looking material, separateness dissolves.
 
~ Dean Radin
 
Mesa Arch at Sunrise, Canyon Lands National Park, UT – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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When we know nature as the mother’s body and everything in nature as utterly sacred then, and then only, will we do everything in our power to preserve, honor and protect nature.
 
~ Andrew Harvey
 
Sunrise in Huangshan Mountains, Anhui Province, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Ecology and spirituality are two sides of the same coin—understanding and making sense of our own interbeing with the world, and our interdependence. You can enter into an embodied experience of wholeness and meaning through the door of the natural world or through spiritual practice. In fact, the two are ultimately not separate but they are pathways to the same oneness of existence in and through relationships. A oneness we experience most of the time from the limited perspective created by the ‘illusion of separation’.
 
If we want to reconstitute this oneness—the whole whose conscious reflections we are—we need to do so through the way we create meaning together and through the narrative we tell about our interbeing.
 
~ Daniel Christian Wahl
 
Misty Forest – photo by Anna Subbotina, bigstockphoto.com

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The shamanic dimension of psyche is a primordial creature made of fur and feathers, seedpods and stardust—an unruly being who participates with the wild depths of the universe, howls with the invisible and visible Others, dances with numinous and cosmic forces. The shamanic dimension of psyche circles and beds down, waiting, so near, just beyond the gate of our ordinary minds.
 
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
 
The Wings Rock Formations, Bish Badlands, NM – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Exploration #10

This week’s exploration focuses on gratitude accompanied by an ever-deepening recognition of the gifts we receive every day from the beings with whom we share this planet.  For this exploration, I invite you to remember that everything you eat was once the body of a living being.  If that feels morbid to you, please keep in mind that our beautiful planet has organized its physical being to depend on both birth and death of all life forms.  Without these dynamic processes, the creativity expressed in nature couldn’t continue to evolve, explore, or express itself in such abundance.

Many indigenous cultures automatically include deep gratitude to the beings they hunt and consume, a recognition of the profound gift that the life of the being they hunt offers to their survival and well-being. View More

John O’Donohue wrote, “The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.” I would add that the world is full of living beings waiting to be heard and resonated with, as we welcome and delight in each other and begin to heal humans, animals, and the Earth.
 
What we do not attend to cannot reach us. If we don’t know to listen, we cannot hear. But the animals are calling us. It doesn’t matter what animal it is or where we are. Any of us can experience this. It is our heritage and it is inherent in the nature of Life if only we realize the possibility and open ourselves up to it. When you go into nature, tune in more deeply. Life is calling to life.
 
~ Susan Eirich
 
Bighorn Sheep, Zion National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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I feel very hopeful that we will come through the ecological crisis we are now facing. I feel hopeful about the future. And the reason for my hope is that I have witnessed the power of the ancient spiritual practice of shamanism to heal and transform alongside other spiritual traditions.

It is time for us to apply the spiritual forms of healing to the ecological crisis of our times, while embracing shamanism as a way of life. In order to have long-term healing, we must live a life that honors and respects the earth and all of life.

~ Sandra Ingerman

Moon Over Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…the intermediaries between the human community and the more-than-human community — the animals, the plants, the trees, even whole forests are considered to be living, intelligent forces. Even the winds and the weather patterns are seen as living beings. Everything is animate. Everything moves. It’s just that some things move slower than other things, like the mountains or the ground itself. But everything has its movement, has its life. And the magicians [shamans/healers] were precisely those individuals who were most susceptible to the solicitations of these other-than-human shapes. It was the magicians who could most easily enter into some kind of rapport with another being, like an oak tree, or with a frog.
 
~ An excerpt from ‘The Ecology of Magic’, a Scott London Interview with David Abram, anthropologist, philosopher, magician and author of The Spell of the Sensuous.
 
Great Hornbill in Rainforest – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They’ve been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

MIsty Morning Forest, Phuket, Thailand – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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I place on the altar of dawn, the quiet loyalty of breath. The tent of thought where I shelter, waves of desire I am shore to and all beauty drawn to the eye. May my mind come alive today to the invisible geography that invites me to new frontiers. To break the dead shell of yesterdays, to risk being disturbed and changed. May I have the courage today to live the life that I would love. To postpone my dream no longer but to do at last what I came here for, and waste my time on fear no more.
 
~ John O’ Donohue
 
Mountain Sunrise – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Lastly we call on the beings of the future: All you who will come after us on this Earth, be with us now. All you who are waiting to be born in the ages to come, it is for your sakes too that we work to heal our world. We cannot picture your faces or say your names — you have none yet — but we feel the reality of your claim on life. It helps us to be faithful in the task that must be done, so that there will be for you, as there was for our ancestors: blue sky, fruitful land, clear waters.
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
Los Hevideros Coastline, Lanzarote Island, Spain – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We call also on the beings of the present: All you with whom we live and work on this endangered planet, all you with whom we share this brink of time, be with us now. Fellow humans and brothers and sisters of other species, help us open to our collective will and wisdom. Aloud and silently we say your names and picture your faces…
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
African Elephant, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Today’s quotation—and what we’ll offer for the next three days—is from “World as Lover, World as Self”, by Joanna Macy. It’s called, The Three Beings. We’ll post one of each of the three beings over the next three days:
 
We call first on the beings of the past: Be with us now, all you who have gone before. You, our ancestors and teachers, who walked and loved and faithfully tended this Earth, be present to us now so that we may carry on the legacy you bequeathed us. Aloud and silently in our hearts we say your names and see your faces.
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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